Welcome to our January- February 2016 UCOTA E-newsletter. This issue features news from UCOTA, our member community enterprises, Uganda tourism industry stakeholders and other tourism related information. Our editorial team would like to appreciate you for taking some time off to read this issue and we wish to get feedback and comments with an aim of improving our subsequent editions.
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We wish you enjoyable reading…!
Thank you!
Helen Lubowa
Executive Director
Registration of Community Based Tourism Enterprises (CBTEs).
UCOTA is spearheading inventory development of all Community Based Tourism Enterprises (CBTEs) in Uganda. All managers of CBTEs are therefore encouraged to register their CBTEs then either through (1) UCOTA websites;ucota , info, (3) Phone (direct calls/ sms) 414 501866, 0772657700, 0712500019 or physically at the office (map below). The registration information includes;
Name and type of enterprise, location, ownership (if community number of males/females), contacts, services offered and prices, number of staff, number direct and indirect beneficiaries and community development projects supported by enterprise.
Why register?
- To plan for better service delivery by both government and UCOTA e.g capacity building and marketing.
- Be part of the National CBTE inventory
Your cooperation towards the exercise shall be highly appreciated. See the form
UCOTA NEWS
Livelihood training in lutembe Mabamba
 UCOTA continued to work with the two community groups of Mabamba and Lutembe to further enhance member abilities to open and manage environmentally friendly businesses in an effort to boost conservation of the 2 wetlands (Lutembe and Mabamba) the communities live adjacent to. Fruit tree nursery management was a new intervention introduced to the groups in addition to further building their skills in handcraft making and mushroom growing, interventions introduced in 2015. Read more
WTM® Africa
Calling all tourism professionals to WTM® Africa
Now in its third year and taking place from 6-8 April 2016, World Travel Market® Africa, the leading B2B exhibition, hosts a nexus for the inbound and outbound African travel & tourism markets. Through its industry networks, global reach and regional focus, WTM® Africa creates personal and business opportunities providing our customers with quality contacts, content and communities; all under one venue, the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).Read more
END OF THE FK PLACEMENT
 March 2016 marks the end my one-year-stay in Uganda as an FK participant. Kenya community Based Tourism Network (KECOBAT) and Uganda Community Tourism Association (UCOTA) have been in partnership since 2011. The FK Norway sponsored partnership entails the exchange of employees between the two organizations for sharing of ideas and experiences related to community tourism. Read more
Community of the Month
Kalisizo Based Community Development Organization
 Family Development Support Initiatives (FADSI) in Kalisizo Masaka district is an NGO that works in Kalisizo to promote socio-economic development using a self-help approach amongst the local people in areas of agriculture, tourism, micro-finance and AID/ HIV. FADSI under the tourism component of the program has supported the residents to utilise the local resources which the community would never have dreamt of as sources of social and economic development. Unlike many NGOs, the tourism initiatives have been established on basis of sustainable businesses not charity to ensure residents derive income and grow their business skills which can be applied in other sectors of development. However, a portion of the income is retained by the group to support community development projects to ensure tourism benefits are realized by all the community members Read more
TOURISM NEWS
Events
Funding opportunities
Travel Quotes
- “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ? Anita Desai
- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ? Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennestags: travel
- “I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” ? Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” ? Simone de Beauvoir
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